Multiband Printed Metamaterial Inverted-F Antenna (IFA) for USB Applications

Author

Soliman, Ahmed ; Elsheakh, Dalia ; Abdallah, Esmat ; El-Hennawy, Hadia

Author_Institution

Electron. & Commun. Eng. Dept., Ain Shams Univ., Cairo, Egypt

Volume

14

fYear

2015

fDate

2015

Firstpage

297

Lastpage

300

Abstract

A printed multiband coplanar waveguide (CPW)-fed inverted-F antenna (IFA) is presented in this letter. The concept of loading a printed-IFA with composite right/left-handed (CRLH) unit cells is theoretically and experimentally investigated by using electromagnetic simulators, Advanced Design System (ADS) and High Frequency Structure Simulator (HFSS), for universal serial bus (USB) applications. The proposed USB antenna structure consists of a CPW printed-IFA with two arms loaded by two CRLH unit cells to achieve two extra operating bands in addition to the two fundamental resonant frequencies of two IFA arms. The structure is designed to operate at GSM 1.8 GHz, Bluetooth 2.4 GHz, WiMAX 3.5 GHz, and WLAN 5.2 GHz. Measured and simulated results are in good agreement with the theoretical predictions.

Keywords

UHF antennas; antenna feeds; coplanar waveguides; metamaterial antennas; microstrip antennas; multifrequency antennas; peripheral interfaces; planar inverted-F antennas; ADS; Bluetooth; CPW-IFA; CRLH unit cells; GSM; HFSS; IFA; USB antenna structure; WLAN; WiMAX; advanced design system; composite right-left-handed unit cells; electromagnetic simulators; frequency 1.8 GHz; frequency 2.4 GHz; frequency 3.5 GHz; frequency 5.2 GHz; fundamental resonant frequency; high frequency structure simulator; multiband printed metamaterial inverted-F antenna; printed multiband coplanar waveguide; universal serial bus; Antenna measurements; Loaded antennas; Resonant frequency; Universal Serial Bus; Wireless communication; Advanced Design System (ADS); composite right/left-handed (CRLH); coplanar waveguide (CPW); inverted-F antenna (IFA); universal serial bus (USB);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1225

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LAWP.2014.2360222

Filename

6910217